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“I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head.”
Dr. Mohammed Tahir, orthopaedic and peripheral nerve surgeon. Time in Gaza: Sep. 2024 - Feb. 2025

(Video contains sensitive images of injured children)
So this child was lying on the floor, he had a bandage on his head, but he had vomited on himself. And his eyes were becoming fixed and dilated, and they were getting there and he was choking. He was gasping. And I couldn’t bear to just let him die alone. I didn’t do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head. And I tried to comfort him just thinking if he could feel, and at least he would not feel alone, that somebody is holding his hand. And then he died and he was martyred.